“He considered telling her that she could, and often, if she married him.”

“Magdalen, the girl with pretty green eyes. Magdalen, who was smiling so warmly right now at Lenhart, who was attentive to Katrin even when she talked too much. She had been so gentle and concerned ...”

“So thats when the witch somehow pulled off her own restraint and flung herself at me like a beautiful and deadly panther. I think shed seen my stupid clipboard and realized that Id been writing dow...”

“Natural isn't the same as right. Normal isn't the same as moral. Everyone deserves a say in what happens to the world.”

“Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”